Pith Number

pith:XUCV6WSV

pith:2017:XUCV6WSVH5N6KGUGBPYAXPIS2Z

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The Prediction Advantage: A Universally Meaningful Performance Measure for Classification and Regression

Ran El-Yaniv, Yair Wiener, Yonatan Geifman

arxiv:1705.08499 v2 · 2017-05-23 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUCV6WSVH5N6KGUGBPYAXPIS2Z}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:34.793662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd055f5a553f5be51a860bf00bbd12d653920326d65af6f2c6b9e35b5bfafdd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08499 · arxiv_version: 1705.08499v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08499 · pith_short_12: XUCV6WSVH5N6 · pith_short_16: XUCV6WSVH5N6KGUG · pith_short_8: XUCV6WSV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XUCV6WSVH5N6KGUGBPYAXPIS2Z \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: bd055f5a553f5be51a860bf00bbd12d653920326d65af6f2c6b9e35b5bfafdd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ccf3163768b77878b144e3ed6a3fd5cb85480cc58b03066cb0484ca04235e27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-23T19:43:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc23c3da284b81e145fb13a46e22ee52483bae92ee8dd24995c925f52db1a607"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08499",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}